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WHITE-\VIx\GED LARK. 

 Alauda sibirica, J. F. Gmelin. 



An example of this Eastern species, which had been captured 

 alive on Nov. 22nd 1S69, when associating with a flock of Snow- 

 Buntings, was recognized the same day bj^ the late Mr. G. Dawson 

 Rowley and subsequently exhibited at a meeting of the Zoological 

 Society. It proved to be a female, and is now in the collection of 

 Mr. T. J. Monk of Lewes. 



An occasional visit from the White-winged Lark is not surprising, 

 for three specimens have already been obtained in Belgium : one in 

 October 1855 near Liege, another at IMalines (or Mechlin) in 

 1856, and a third more recently near Namur. On Heligoland one 

 was taken on August 2nd 18S1 ; and although its occurrence is not 

 yet authenticated in Northern Germany its visits to Poland and 

 Galizia are not unfrcquent, while stragglers have been recorded — 

 always on the autumn migration — from Trent in Tyrol, and Verona 

 and Bergamo in Italy. On the black-earth plains of Russia as far 

 north as Saratov on the Volga it is a common breeding species, 

 visiting Southern Russia and portions of Turkey in winter; while 

 eastward we trace it through the Kirghis steppes as far as the Altai 

 Mountains, and up to Omsk on the Irtish in Siberia : it is also 

 found in Turkestan. 



